Improvement in seed-planters



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L. S. LANCASTER.

Seed-Planter.

No. 25,513 Patented S pt. 20 1859.

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L. s. LANCASTER.

Seed-Planter.

Patented Sept. 20, 1859 NIPEIERS, PHOTD-LITHOGRAPHER, WASNINGTO UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEED-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 25.5] 3, dated September 20, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVI L. LANCASTER, of Rocky Mount, in the county of Edgecombe and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Seed-Planters and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view; Fig. 2, a longitudinal central section.

The nature of my invention consists in the arrangements of devices hereinafter described.

e is a wooden frame, ofoblong shape, as seen in the drawings, of dimensions sufficient to admit two wheels, 0 c, to be placed on the inside of the same and leave sufficient space to receive the hopper on between them. The Wheels are permanently fixed on a shaft, which runs on bearings attached to the under side of frame 0. 0n the center of the shaft is a cylin-. der, b, with pockets or depressions 1' for the purpose of conveying the seeds in proper quantitles from the hopper m to the conveyingtube D, which deposits the seeds in the furrow made by the opener F a.

X is a coverer, with arms extending to within a short distance of the front end of the machine, where they are pivoted loosely to frame 6 by bolts 19.

Z is the colter in advance of the furrowopener.-

H H represent a leveler or clearer; I I, the bottom of the same, which is for the purpose of leveling off the ground on each side of the furrow-opener as the machine passes along.

This machine is simple in construction, eas- LEVI L. LANCASTER.

\Vitnesses:

B. BRADLEY, It. S. PlTW'AY. 

